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Refugee and Forced Migration Studies has grown from being a concern of a relatively small number of scholars and policy researchers in the 1980s to a global field of interest with thousands of students worldwide studying displacement either from traditional disciplinary perspectives or as a core component of newer programmes across the Humanities and Social and Political Sciences. Today the field encompasses both rigorous academic research which may or may not ultimately inform policy and practice, as well as action-research focused on advocating in favour of refugees` needs and rights.

This authoritative Handbook critically evaluates the birth and development of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, and analyses the key contemporary and future challenges faced by academics and practitioners working with and for forcibly displaced populations around the world. The 52 state-of-the-art chapters, written by leading academics, practitioners, and policymakers working in universities, research centres, think tanks, NGOs and international organizations, provide a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the key intellectual, political, social and institutional challenges arising from mass displacement in the world today. The chapters vividly illustrate the vibrant and engaging debates that characterise this rapidly expanding field of research and practice.

Table of Contents

1: Introduction: Refugee and Forced Migration Studies in Transition, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Gil Loescher, Katy Long and Nando Sigona
Part I: Approaches: Old and New
2: Histories of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Jerome Elie
3: International Law, Refugees and Forced Migration, Guy Goodwin Gil
4: Political Theory, Ethics and Forced Migration, Matthew Gibney
5: International Relations and Forced Migration, Alexander Betts
6: Anthropology and Forced Migration, Dawn Chatty
7: Sociology and Forced Migration, Finn Stepputat and Ninna Nyberg Sørensen
8: Livelihoods and Economics in Forced Migration, Karen Jacobsen
9: Geographies of Forced Migration, Michael Collyer
Part II: Shifting Spaces and Scenarios of Displacement
10: Encampment and Self-settlement, Oliver Bakewell
11: Urban Refugees and IDPs, Loren Landau
12: Protracted Refugee Situations, James Milner
13: Internal Displacement, Walter Kalin
14: Refugees, Diasporas and Transnationalism, Nick Van Hear
15: Forced Migrants as Illegal Migrants, Stephan Scheel and Vicki Squire
Part III: Legal and Institutional Responses to Forced Migration
16: Human Rights and Forced Migration, Jane McAdam
17: UNHCR and Forced Migration, Gil Loescher
18: UNRWA and Forced Migration, Susan Akram
19: State Controls: Borders, Refugees and Citizenship, Randall Hansen
20: Securitisation and Forced Migration, Anne Hammerstad
21: Protection Gaps, Volker Turk and Rebecca Dowd
22: Statelessness, Alice Edwards and Laura Van Waas
23: Humanitarian Reform: from Co-ordination to Clusters and Beyond, Simon Russell and Vicky Tennant
24: Refugees and Humanitarianism, Michael Barnett
Part IV: Root Causes of Displacement
25: Conflict and Crisis-induced Displacement, Sarah Lischer
26: Development-induced Displacement, Christopher McDowell
27: The Environment-mobility Nexus, Roger Zetter and James Morrissey
28: Trafficking and Smuggling, Bridget Anderson
Part V: Lived Experiences and Representations of Forced Migration
29: Memories, Narratives and Representations of Forced Migration, Nando Sigona
30: Children and Forced Migration, Jason Hart
31: Gender and Forced Migration, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
32: Older Displaced Persons, Claudio Bolzman
33: Disability and Forced Migration, Mansha Mirza
34: Health and Forced Migration, Alaistair Ager
35: Religion and Forced Migration, David Hollenbach
36: Media, Refugees and other Forced Migrants, Terence Wright
Part VI: Rethinking Durable Solutions
37: Rethinking Durable Solutions, Katy Long
38: Local Integration, Lucy Hovil
39: "Voluntary" Repatriation and Reintegration, Laura Hammond
40: Resettlement, Joanne Van Selm
41: Burden Sharing and Refugee Protection, Martin Gottwald
Part VII: Regional Studies: Current Realities and Future Challenges
42: Forced Migration in West Africa, Marion Fresia
43: Forced Migration in Southern Africa, Jonathan Crush and Abel Chikanda
44: Forced Migration in East Africa and the Great Lakes, Gaim Kibreab
45: Forced Migration in the Middle East and North Africa, Sari Hanafi
46: Forced Migration in Broader Central Asia, Alessandro Monsutti and Bayram Balci
47: Forced Migration in South Asia, Paula Banerjee
48: Forced Migration in South East Asia and East Asia, Kirsten McConnahie
49: Forced Migration in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, Anne McNevin
50: Forced Migration in South America, Jose H. Fischel De Andrade
51: Forced Migration in Central America and the Caribbean, Megan Bradley
52: Forced Migration in North America, Susan Martin
53: Forced Migration in Europe, Roland Bank

Author Information

Edited by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Reader in Human Geography and Co-Director of the Forced Migration, Migration Research Unit at the Department of Geography, University College London, Gil Loescher, Visiting Professor, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, Katy Long, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh, and Nando Sigona, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity at the School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham

Contributors:
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh is Reader in Human Geography and Co-Director of the Migration Research Unit at the Department of Geography, University College London.
Gil Loescher is Visiting Professor at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Professor, University of Notre Dame.
Katy Long is Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh.
Nando Sigona is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham.
Jerome Elie is the Executive Director of the Programme for the Study of Global Migration at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
Guy Goodwin Gill is Professor of Public International Law and Fellow All Souls College, Oxford University.
Matthew J. Gibney is Reader in Politics and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford, Official Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, and Deputy Director of the Refugee Studies Centre.
Alexander Betts is University Lecturer in Refugee Studies and Forced Migration Studies, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Green Templeton College.
Dawn Chatty is Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration and a Fellow of St. Cross College at the University of Oxford. She is the Director of the Refugee Studies Centre.
Finn Stepputat is Senior Researcher, research unit on Migration, Danish Institute for International Studies.
Ninna Nyberg Sørensen is Senior Researcher and the Head of the research unit on Migration, Danish Institute for International Studies.
Karen Jacobsen is Associate Professor at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University.
Michael Collyer is Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Sussex.
Oliver Bakewell is co-director of the International Migration Institute at the University of Oxford.
Loren B. Landau is the Director of the African Center for Migration and Society (ACMS) (formerly Forced Migration Studies Programme, FMSP) at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa.
James Milner is an Associate Professor in Political Science at Carlton University.
Walter Kälin os Professor of Constitutional and International Public Law, University Bern and Senior Fellow at the Brookings-LSE project on Internal Displacement.
Nicholas Van Hear is a Senior Researcher and Deputy Director at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford.
Stephen Scheel is a postgraduate researcher in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the Open University.
Vicki Squire is Associate Professor of International Security at the University of Warwick.
Jane McAdam is Professor of Law, University of New South Wales, Australia.
Gil Loescher is Visiting Professor, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University and Emeritus Professor, University of Notre Dame.
Susan Akram is a Clinical Professor of Law, Boston University Law School.
Randall Hansen holds a Research Chair in Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada.
Ann Hammerstadt, Lecturer in International Relations, University of Kent.
Volker Turk, Director of International Protection, UNHCR Rebecca Dowd, Division of International Protection, UNHCR.
Alice Edwards is Chief of the Protection Policy and Legal Advice Section at UNHCR in Geneva. She is also Research Associate, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford and Research Fellow at St Anne`s College.
Laura van Waas is Senior Researcher and Manager of the Statelessness Programme, an initiative of Tilburg Law School in the Netherlands, dedicated to research, training and outreach on statelessness and related issues.
Vicky Tennant, Senior Policy Officer, UNHCR Simon Russell, Senior Protection Officer, UNHCR.
Michael Barnett, University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science, George Washington University.
Sarah Lischer is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University.
Dr Christopher McDowell is a Reader in International Politics at the Department of International Politics, City University London.
Roger Zetter is Emeritus Professor of Refugee Studies, University of Oxford. He retired as the fourth Director of the Refugee Studies Centre in September 2011.
James Morrissey is a Research Officer at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
Bridget Anderson is Professor of Migration and Citizenship at the University of Oxford where she is Deputy Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS).
Nando Sigona is Birmingham Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Birmingham and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
Jason Hart is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social and Policy Studies, University of Bath.
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh is Departmental Lecturer in Forced Migration at the Refugee Studies Centre, and a Junior Research Fellow in Refugee Studies at Lady Margaret Hall, both at the University of Oxford.
Claudio Bolzman is Professor at the Department of Social Work, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO) and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Geneva.
Mansha Mirza is Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Alastair Ager is Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.
David Hollenbach, S.J., University Chair in Human Rights and International Justice, Theology Department, Boston College.
Terence Wright is professor of Visual Arts at the University of Ulster.
Katy Long is Lecturer in International Development at the University of Edinburgh, and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
Lucy Hovil is senior researcher at the International Refugee Rights Intiative, Kampala.
Laura Hammond is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Joanne Van Selm is an Independent Consultant on Migration and Refugee Issues, Associate Director of Research at Eurasylum and Adjunct Professor at Georegetown University.
Martin Gottwald is Senior Leadership Development Coordinator at United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and was formerly a Senior Protection Officer at UNHCR.
Marion Fresia is Assistant Professor at the Institut d`ethnologie, University of Neuchâtel.
Jonathan Crush is Professor of Global Development Studies and Director of the Southern African Research Centre, Queen`s University, Kingston, Canada.
Abel Chikanda is Post Doctoral Fellow, Global Development Studies, Queen`s University, Kingston, Canada.
Gaim Kibreab is Professor and Course Director in Refugee Studies, Department of Social and Policy Studies, London South Bank University.
Sari Hanafi is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, American University of Beirut.
Bayram Balci is a Visiting Scholar on the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC.
Alessandro Monsutti is Research Director at the Programme for the Study of Global Migration, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. He is also a Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre.
Paula Banerjee is Associate Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Calcutta, and former President of the International Association for Study of Forced Migration.
Kirsten McConnachie is the Joyce Pearce Junior Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall and the Refugee Studies Centre, both at the University if Oxford.
Anne McNevin is a Lecturer in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University.
Jose H. Fischel de Andrade is a Professor at the University of Milan, Italy and a UNHCR-designated Judge at the National Court of Asylum (Cour Nationale de Droit d` Asile, CNDA) in Paris. He is a UNHCR senior staff member.
Megan Bradley is a Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, where she works with the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement.
Susan Martin holds the Donald G. Herzberg Chair in International Migration and is the Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Dr Roland Bank is the Head of Protection in UNHCR`s Representation for Austria and Germany in Berlin.